potential audience

By being abel to identify the target audience the film can become more identifiable with the audience, this incases the audience base for the film and the people whom it is aimed to help the film create a larger income.

To begin the research into our potential audience we examined who the target audience would be for our film, we did this by carrying out questionnaires of whom people felt our target audience would be for the film. The results we obtained was that more than likely our audience would be male dominated due to the sci fi elements and the characteristics of our film as it is not seen as very 'feminine'. Further more we discovered that our film would appeal to teens;this also backs up our theory that most people to visit the cinema is young adults/teens.
In order to reach the target audience we felt that by creating a poster to display would advertise films the best in places such as social clubs, schools universities to allow the film to reach the potential audience.

The internet is a great place in the modern day to put out things that you wish to be advertised as young people in our era are hooked on social media therefore this is probably the most reliable source of advertisement, as well as adverts on youtube videos ext.

It is well known fact that young people watch a lot of television and by using adverts between viewings will also help grab the target audience.

Potential audience of thriller films

Thrillers generally appeal to both male and female and a large variety of social classes, through the use of relatable characters and themes throughout the film. A key point in thriller movies is the use of suspense and tension throughout, this is seen a lot more in psychological thrillers as constant plot twists are generally used to keep the audience thinking and on edge, with there being many sub genres of thriller this means that everyone can relate to a character in one way or another.

• It is important within thrillers for your target audience to be able to attach themselves to a character that they can build a relationship with as the film progresses, in the Scream movies that involves mainly adolescent individuals this ables the audience to relate to different characters and become more interested in the movie and further watch the film to see what is going to happen next

• A key element that is dominant in the thriller genre is disguise this tends to create a lot of mystery within a film and normally used on the antagonist making the audience un aware of what the character is like and who it is. Again the film scream does this and also The Black Swan and this creates suspense within the film.

Potential audience for Science fiction film

• Stereotypically we would expect the audience for a science fiction film to be mainly middle aged males who we would typically expect to be 'nerds' and typically involved within the technological field of work or science.  However we have seen an audience shift as now we see more female characters involved in sci-fi films as producers are now reaching out to females an example of this would be the film Alien as this has female leads, however it is still prominent that Science fiction films are male dominated.
• From my won individual research I found that both male and females do tend to find Science fiction films interesting although I did see a slight rise in the number of males that preferred Science fiction.